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A man who changed his name by deed poll to Kenny Fu-Kennard has been denied a passport because his name is considered too rude. The former soldier from Cornwall, applied for a new passport earlier this year, but had his application rejected on the basis that his name “may cause offence”. The 33-year-old challenged the decision...

Native Hawaiian groups have vowed to protect the Pacific state's tallest mountain from construction of a giant telescope aimed at helping scientists study the time just after the Big Bang. State officials will try to close the road to Mauna Kea summit off to the public on Monday, as trucks carrying equipment are set...

A disabled man is taking legal action against Ryanair after fracturing his arm on a flight. Daniel Rooney, 38, had to be carried to the toilet by his friend during the service from Birmingham to Portugal when no onboard wheelchair was provided. The Solihull resident said he was “humiliated” by the experience and sustained a fractured arm from...

George Clooney has called for a boycott of the nine luxury hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei in protest at strict new anti-gay laws that have been internationally condemned. Writing in a column for Deadline, a film news site, the actor called on the public to stay away from the Dorchester Collection hotels, which are owned by the Brunei...

(CNN)The secretive Diego Garcia military base may be 1,000 miles from the nearest continent, but it has all the trappings of a modern American town. The troops here can dine on burgers at Jake's Place, enjoy a nine-hole golf course, go bowling or sink a cold beer at one of several bars. The local command has nicknamed the base the "Footprint of...

A nonprofit sued to block PresidentDonald Trump from diverting funds from the federal budget to spend about $8 billion on his promised border wall, hours after he declared a national emergency. world Updated: Feb 16, 2019 11:48 IST Bloomberg Washington A non-profit sued to block President Donald Trump from diverting funds from the federal budget...

PresidentDonald Trump said on Monday he would nominate David Bernhardt, a former energy lobbyist, to be secretary of the interior, the department that oversees U.S. public lands. Bernhardt, currently the acting secretary at the Interior Department, is widely expected to continue pushing the Trump administration's plan to boost domestic fossil...

The wildlife monitoring network TRAFFIC said its latest report found a drastic increase since 2016 in the number of people using Facebook to purchase and sell endangered or rare animals in Thailand, according to BBCNews. TRAFFIC's researchers found 1,521 animals for sale across 12 different groups on Facebook in Thailand in less than a month of...

By Diego Oré MANAGUA (Reuters) - For almost six hours, one of the leaders of the resistance to NicaraguanPresidentDaniel Ortega hid in a house while police and paramilitary groups laid siege to the last opposition stronghold, which finally fell this week. While hooded men celebrated the capture of the Monimbo neighborhood in the city of Masaya on...

The EU's highest court ruled on Tuesday that Poland's logging in the UNESCO-protected Białowieża forest was illegal, opening the door to potential fines reaching into the millions of euros, according to The Guardian. Activists said that at least 10,000 trees were believed to have been cut down in Białowieża, one of Europe's last primeval woodland...

Chile created five new massive national parks on Monday that will preserve large tracts of land in Patagonia, a victory for conservationists after two decades of land acquisitions from American philanthropists Doug Tompkins and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, according to The Guardian. The new parks are the largest donation of private land to the...

Video apparently showing council workers poisoning stray dogs has sparked an outcry in Lebanon where rescue shelters do exist, like this one in the town of Zahrani south of Beirut Video footage of stray dogs apparently being poisoned by municipal staff has sparked a public outcry in Lebanon, with politicians rushing to post pictures of themselves...

For a decade, writer VirginiaWinder has gently nagged friends to write a story about their Oakura garden. When the OK came, she found a place of remembered people, organised colour and recycled bottles. Through a verdant avenue of plane trees and ponga sits a hideaway lovingly created over a dozen years. Kim Jennings and Doreen Piquemal own two...

The Trump administration, reversing an Obama-era policy, will end the prosecution of wind-turbine owners and others who accidentally kill any of 1,000 species of migratory birds, according to people familiar with the plans. Under the new legal guidance set to be issued by the Interior...

When it comes to organic food, it's buyer beware. Fake organics abound these days, be it organic eggs laid by hens cooped up in gigantic factory farms, organic beef and milk from cows raised under anything but humane, pastured conditions, or hydroponic vegetables grown under artificial lighting in conventional coconut waste or ground up plastic,...

Catamount Forest Products workers clear an area of red pine trees on city-owned land off Wheelerville Road in Mendon. ROBERT LAYMAN / STAFF PHOTO MENDON — “I didn’t want to have to pull the trigger,” said DaveSchneider, deputy tree warden for RutlandCity. But one way or another, the city-owned red pine stands along Wheelerville Road in Mendon...

Jibran Al Ismaili did not know he was breaking the law until the police came knocking on his door in July and took away the 52 baby sea turtles he was keeping in a pool at his home in Muscat. The 44-year old university lecturer said he got the turtles from the beach at Ras Al Hadd in the eastern region of the country. He was not arrested, but he...